[P/O W. 'Moggy' Cattermole]

Urrgh. Owl, stop for a moment and engage your brain. Do you ever think before posting? This is certainly not the first time you've made some crass and poorly thought out comment that's annoyed and or offended members of the site.

We appreciate where you're coming from with regards to UI being of a big install size, but that doesn't give you the right just demand stuff (and belittle a lot of people's hard work) and then get upset when people object to your attitude.

We cannot keep making allowances because of your age. We have before -- he's young, he didn't realise -- but you will have to learn or the cycle will repeat itself and you'll upset or offend people worse, but in a more serious way. In fact, we don't want to set double standards and since you don't appear to have learnt from the last time you fell fowl of the community here (using other people's work without giving any credit or asking permissions, and annoyed and insulted some of the skinners by ignoring what they had to say advice wise), I'm going to send you off from the site for a week to cool off. When you return, please think before you post -- I was 14 once and managed to say and post things with a damn site more tact than you -- I'm sure a lot of people here are the same. There comes a point when your age is not a justifyable excuse. We've given you allowances and you've reached that point anyway. Please learn from this.

Does the rest of the world consider it harsh? Well, i'd rather ban him for a week now so he learns than let him off and eventually be forced to ban him permanently for a refusal to comply to our forum's rules, and for generally upsetting everyone in a major way.

[and yes, i will email this to owl as he'll not see this for a week]